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howardwheeler
Aug 25, 2018Explorer
Good article. My particular situation involves tire pressure monitors sealed to the valve stem so I don’t know if the article specifically applies. And I experienced the reverse. At high altitude my pressures registered surprisingly low. Maybe I measured my tires before the trip at a higher ambient temperature than I remembered. I always, though, do check completely cold, without being driven at all. I know in the mountains I was at 50 degrees when the tires read around 100 to 102. Quite a drop. But the change in temperature from home to the mountain morning may have been as much as 45 degrees I guess. I will check tire pressure now that I’m back home and compare. I have had too many blowouts in the early days of my RV career due to improper pressure (I now have a monitor and check pressure diligently) to casually ignore such low pressure readings. Plus, I’ve always heard that you should never “air down” due to higher pressures after driving. But it still seems to me that had I refilled the tires at altitude to 110, like I always do before a trip, I would have over inflated them. Doesn’t that seem right?
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